TRIALS: Hung Jury for Huey

For once, Huey P. Newton, co-founder and
stern ideologue of the Black Panther Party, was smiling. The ten women
and two men of the jury were filing out of the Alameda County courtroom
in Oakland, Calif. After six days of wrangling over the case, in which
Newton was accused of killing a police officer, they were so firmly
deadlocked that Judge Harold B. Hove declared a mistrial and dismissed
them. "This shows that with at least one black person on the jury I can
get a fair trial," Newton said. "A hung jury...